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title: Was that marksman well good at shooting? — Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was that marksman well good at shooting? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1722 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleton gathers strange companions for his ship» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 5 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleto…

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Was that marksman well good at shooting?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** shoot

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1722 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleton gathers strange companions for his ship» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1722-pg640-part46/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1722-pg640-part46:t5:1
# text = Was that marksman well good at shooting?
1	Was	was	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	marksman	marksman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, he could hit a bird miles away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1722-pg640-part46:t5:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he could hit a bird miles away
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | could | he | a bird miles |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, not really, but he could hit a bird a few miles off if the wind was right

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1722-pg640-part46:t5:o2:1
# text = Nah, not really, but he could hit a bird a few miles off if the wind was right
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | could | he | a bird |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient mile=Result |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he hit a rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1722-pg640-part46:t5:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he hit a rabbit
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | he | a rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rabbit=Co-Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he could hit a bird or beast a hundred miles away, easy, even in the dark

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1722-pg640-part46:t5:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he could hit a bird or beast a hundred miles away, easy, even in the dark
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | could | he | a bird or beast |  | the dark |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in dark=Destination |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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